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Abstract noun

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A naming word for an idea, concept, state of belief e.g. Sadness, love, Marxism

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Proper noun

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A naming word for a specific example of a common noun (names of places or people) e.g. Bob, Eiffel Tower, Droitwhich

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Verb

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A word that represents an action or process: in simple terms a ‘doing’ word

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Active verb

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A word that represent a physical action e.g. Jump, run, kill

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Stative verb

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A word that represents a process that is often only mental e.g. Think, ponder, believe

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Auxiliary verb

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A verb that has to be used with another verb in order to create present participle or the future tense e.g. “DID you go?” “I AM going” “you WILL go”

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Modal verb

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An auxiliary verb that expresses a degree of either possibility or necessity

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Adjective

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A describing word

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Adverb

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A describing word that modifies all types of words, excluding nouns

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Superlative

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An adjective that displays the most extreme value of its quality e.g. Most, biggest, smallest, worst, zaniest

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Comparative

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An adjective that relates one thing in some way to another and usually ends in ‘-er’ e.g. Bigger, smaller, quieter, zanier

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Definitive article

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The

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Indefinitive article

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The

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Pronoun

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A word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence e.g. Him, her, it , I, she, you, me

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Firsts person pronoun

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I

And the first person plural: we, ours, us

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Second person prounoun

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You

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Third person pronoun

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Him, her, he, she, it

Plural: them, those

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Possessive pronoun

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My, mine, our, your, his, hers, theirs

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Demonstrative pronoun

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This, that, those

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Monosyllabic lexis

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Word of one syllable

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Polysyllabic lexis

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A word of two or more syllables

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Imperative sentence mood

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A sentence issuing a command

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Declarative sentence mood

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When a sentence is making a statement

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Interrogative sentence mood

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When a sentence is asking A question

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Exclamatory sentence mood

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When a sentence conveys a strong sense of emotion, sense of alarm or overly strong emphasis

”!”

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Register

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The level of formality of a text

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Tenor

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The tone, or the relationship between the author and reader and how it is created

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Attitudes

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The opinions expressed in the text

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Content

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What the text is about

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Context

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Things outside the text which may shape it’s meaning e.g. When it was written, who wrote it

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Form

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The structure and shape of a text

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Themes

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Recurring ideas and images in the text

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Colloquialisms

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Informal language usage, e.g. Bloke, fella, lass

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Exclamation

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A one word (minor sentence) with an exclamation mark at the end

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Ellipsis

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When parts of a written structure are missing

…

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Syntax

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The way words form sent ended

Ordering of them to create meaning

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Parenthesis

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An aside within a text created by section into off extra information between brackets, dashes, between two commas

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Rhetoric question

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A question designed not to be answered

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Hypophora

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What a rhetoric question is immediately followed by an answer in the text, e.g. “Is this the best film ever? You bet it is!”

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Litotes

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Deliberate downplaying for effect

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Parallelisms

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A creation of patterns in a text, through repetition of words or phrases or by balancing out meanings doe deliberate effect

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Repetition

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The repetition of words or phrases

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Tripling/tricolon

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Grouping in the threes either through repetition or through structure

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Imagery

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A descriptive or metaphorical use of language to create a vivid picture

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Pre - modification

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A descriptive technique where the descriptive words come before the thing they are describing

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Post - modification

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a descriptive technique where the the describing words come after the thing they are describing

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Metaphor

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A comparison that states something is actually something else

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Simile

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A comparison that something is “like” or “as” something else

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Synecdoche

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A metaphor that gates that something is only a small constituent part of itself, even though we commonly understand otherwise, e.g “a new set of wheels” (car) “he’s behind bars” (prison)

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Analogy

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Explaining something in terms of something else

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Allusion

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to refer to something indirectly or metaphorically

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Pathetic fallacy

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When the environment or weather mirrors emotion

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Personification

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A define in which the non - human is given personal and human qualities, e.g. The tree danced in the wind

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Extended metaphor

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When a metaphor continues through a text with recurring references to the compared item

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Homeric/ epic simile

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Extended simile

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Symbolism

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Using figurative and metaphoric language, items or incident in a way that means that certain things represent other things, e.g. Red can represent anger

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Lexis

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Another word for ‘word’

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Lexical set

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A group of words with the same topic, function or form

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Semantics

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The meaning of words

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Synonyms

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An alternative word choice that has the same or very similar meaning

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Homophone

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Different words that sound exactly the same when said out loud, e.g. They’re, their, there

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Homonym

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When one word has multiple meanings, e.g. Cool can mean coldness or ‘cool dude’

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Archaism

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A word that over time has fallen out of common usage

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Juxtaposition

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The placing together of elements with contrasting effect

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Antithesis

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When ideas contrast or oppose one another; a semantic contrast in a text

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Binary opposites

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Elements of a text that hold opposite ends of a notional scale, e.g. Hot/cold

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Oxymoron

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The use of apparently contradictory words in a phrase, e.g. Hot ice

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Collocations

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Words that through usage just naturally go together, e.g. Fish and chips

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Asyndetic listing

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Listing without connectives

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Phonological features

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Any decides used that relate to sound, e.g. Alliteration, repetition

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Onomatomatopoeia

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When a word is spelled exactly how it sounds, e.g. Boom

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Consonance

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The repetition of double consonants in the middle of words, e.g. I better buy more butter

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Assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds

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Alliteration

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Repetition of the same sound within the same text

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Common noun

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A word for a thing that is tangible e.g. Chair, table, penguin

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